“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.” PeopleIdentityMajorsCrossesJewBoundariesExpertsPermitCrossings Author:A. B. Yehoshua
“Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism, and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence.” LittlesSelfLife IsExistenceWonderClassRolesModernMiddleConditionsIdentitySourceReturnDegreesMajorsCrisisSakeDefinedRevelationsMiddle ClassDaily LifeUrbanTrue SelfAcheStressfulIdentity CrisisRole PlayingSelf Revelation Author:E. O. Wilson
“The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observable fact: there are already people around who are clearly meant to serve and they are girls and women. To perform the activities these people are doing is to risk being, and being thought of, and thinking of oneself, as a woman. This has been made a terrifying prospect and has been made to constitute a major threat to masculine identity.” PeopleThinkingMenHas BeensMadeFactsGirlWomenBoysRiskIdentityHe ManDevelopmentActivityMajorsThreatOneselfCharacteristicsServingMasculineIncorporating Book:Toward a New Psychology of Women Source: Toward a New Psychology of Women
“As for major obstacles keeping young Latinos from becoming filmmakers, I think our communities are still coming into their identities as storytellers. It's such an important identity to reclaim - it's how our ancestors kept our cultures alive. But a long history of silencing, invisibility, and marginalization has kept generations of Latinos from believing in themselves, from seeing themselves as agents of their own lives. I think there needs to be a focus on this aspect to help cultivate young Latinas to see themselves as cultural producers and defenders.” ThinkingNeedsBelieveLongStillsImportantHelpingYoungCultureCommunityFocusAliveSeeingGenerationsIdentityBecomingMajorsAspectObstaclesProducersAgentsFilmmakerAncestorStorytellerLatinoOur CommunityDefendersInvisibilityLatinaMarginalizationSilencing Author:Aurora Guerrero
“The question really is what will be the central focus of global politics in the coming decades and my argument is that cultural identities and cultural antagonisms and affiliations will play not the only role but a major role.” PlayRolesFocusIdentityMajorsArgumentDecadesAntagonismAffiliationCultural Identity Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.” WorldPoliticalWhitePartyIdentityMajorsBasesPolitical PartiesIdentity Politics Author:Jonathan Chait
“I'm a dad, and that's really important to me, and I realize now that I'm a dad that it's a major part of my identity.” ImportantRealizingIdentityDadMajors Author:W. Kamau Bell
“The fact that schools can actually be a major factor in cementing the world is a factor that's worth considering, the fact that we all have a shared human identity in addition to many other identities.” WorldHumansFactsSchoolIdentityMajorsFactorsConsidering Author:Amartya Sen